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Subject:

eval-after-load 'ffap vs provide at start of file

Date:

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:48:24 +1000

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Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux)

Starting from emacs -Q, evaluating
(progn
(eval-after-load 'ffap
'(setq ffap-newsgroup-heads (remove "misc" ffap-newsgroup-heads)))
(require 'ffap))
gets an error
void-variable ffap-newsgroup-heads
where I hoped the eval-after-load meant after ffap is available and
therefore its various variables exist.
It looks like ffap.el has (provide 'ffap) near the start of the file,
instead of at the end. The end is usual so that eval-after-load can be
used on a feature symbol as above, is it?
In GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.14.7)
of 2009-03-31 on raven, modified by Debian
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